During my stays in Cambodia, I have met/interviewed with young men and women who were HS students and University students about their future. Most of them had minimized their hope just to work in a factory, go overseas as laborer in foreign countries or simply hope for government jobs so they might land in "kanleng klanh" or gold mine in the departments in which you are talking about. What scares me the most is not only the corruption in the government sectors; it is also the corruption in business segments as well as in the whole society. A friend of mine used to own a hotel in PP but went out of business due to his employee's dishonesty. They stole everything ranging from kitchen utensils, computer chips to bed sheets; that just to name a few. Sometimes the numbers of days of occupancy in certain rooms shrunk (in paper) from one week to just 3 days. Workers reported that financial statements were lost due to computer problems. When the Hotel owner checked the computers, no chips remained in the CPUs. You are not going to find out who is corrupt or not corrupt easily because the bribers and those who receive bribes (bribees?) work together as a team. It’s the payers, donors and business owners who usually pay the price. Part of the problems is that most people in Cambodian society accept that bribery is tolerable and it is a part of their life. Government is still in denial that the level of corruption in Cambodia is not bad and that there is corruption in every country hence don't worry about it. It is ashamed to say that in politics, too, you will find the level of corruption, nepotism and favoritism, etc… in the same proportion in all political groups. When clean politicians are corrupt, corrupt politicians are clean then clean equal corrupt. Can you figure out that equation? Political contributions given to politicians to fight corruption, justice and freedom have been used to feed politicians, their family members and friends. Who/what is left to fight this monster called corruption? Most Cambodians have not learned that when everyone in the household steal from their own family, only their neighbors will get richer. No wonder why Cambodia is shrunk to where it is today. ==============
In a message dated 6/10/2009 8:29:47 A.M. Korea Standard Time, [email protected] writes: Tim,Absolutely right, it’s not surprised at all. The ruling government lives on handout from the donors, what do you expected the millions of poor Cambodian to live on. The systems over there are most the corrupted and unproductive. You reap what you sow, if they don’t sow anything over there, of course they will have nothing to reap. Many people in the cities study real hard just are looking forward to get out of the country. The systems are unorganized and offer little opportunities for the populations as whole. The corrupted beaurocrates only interested in doing one signature and get at least $3,000. Someone I know wanted to help Cambodia so he organized to import agriculture products to sell at his shop. All those products have to pass about 5 signatures which would get him at least $15,000 excluding the cost of buying, containers and shipping. Where can he get the profit from? He also has to wait four weeks to get right amount he wants. In the end he has no choice but to import from Thailand and Vietnam. Everyone over there only interested in reaping, but not sow. So, I am not the least surprised if they are starving. On Jun 10, 2:04 am, [email protected] wrote: > Interesting! > > Millions of Cambodians now are at the stage where they just wish to have > enough food to eat, some basic shelters to cover their head, little > medication for their illness, peace, justice and freedom to live as "frustrated > animal." > > ======= > > In a message dated 6/9/2009 8:12:49 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, > > [email protected] writes: > > Man is a frustrated animal. For example, the age of 15 years old, he > would be most happy if he has $2000 to spend. How happy he would be if > he has $50,000 to spend. Slowly he accumulates it at the age of 30. > > Let’s make it to $100,000 for spending spree, and he reaches the age > of 40. > > No, it’s still not exciting enough; he wants to accumulate it to > $600,000. At the age of 60 he makes it, but it’s still not enough, he > wants it more. > > Finally he reaches his goal and accumulates it to $1,000,000 at the > age of 80. By this time at this age he would be too tire to enjoy life > and his money is of little value to him. > > You go through prep, kindergarten, primary school, high school, > college, and university and the end result can be disappointing. > > Man thinks the final end is the most fun, but it’s not true. It’s the > journey along the ways that count. Stop worrying about this and that. > Enjoy life to the full whether you are young or old. > > The world will know how to take care and balance itself out. Look at > the global recession. Some parts of the world have too much and many > parts have too little. > > Although the divine do not take away from the rich and give it to the > poor, it is reducing the surplus of the rich. If the poor want to be > rich they have to be efficient in creating something. > > The nature law is: > > When it’s efficient it creates and increases. > When it’s surplus it reduces. > > **************Download the AOL Classifieds Toolbar for local deals at your > fingertips. > (http://toolbar.aol.com/aolclassifieds/download.html?ncid=emlcntusdown...) **************Download the AOL Classifieds Toolbar for local deals at your fingertips. (http://toolbar.aol.com/aolclassifieds/download.html?ncid=emlcntusdown00000004) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Cambodia Discussion (CAMDISC) - www.cambodia.org" group. This is an unmoderated forum. Please refrain from using foul language. Thank you for your understanding. Peace among us and in Cambodia. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/camdisc Learn more - http://www.cambodia.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
